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PDS revamp gets extended, AI to help identify beneficiaries

New Delhi, May 28 -- The public distribution system (PDS) could soon start using artificial intelligence to track food grain movement, handle citizen complaints on WhatsApp and phone calls, and identi... Read More


SC notice to Centre, CBSE, NCERT on plea against 3-language policy

New Delhi, May 28 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the Union government, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), and the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCE... Read More


Centre urges SC to consolidate challenges to transgender law pending in high courts

New Delhi, May 28 -- The Union government on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to centralise before itself all pending challenges to the constitutional validity of the Transgender Persons (Protection ... Read More


US trade delegation set to visit India from June 1-4 for talks on interim bilateral pact

Washington/ New Delhi, May 28 -- US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Wednesday that he expects to meet commerce minister Piyush Goyal "soon" even as an American trade delegation prepares to... Read More


118 kg cocaine seized off guj coast, 3 arrested

Ahmedabad, May 28 -- Gujarat's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the Indian Coast Guard on Tuesday seized 118.977 kilograms of cocaine from a cargo vessel off the Mundra coast and arrested three foreign ... Read More


FAC clears key infra projects, grants nod for diversion of 3K ha forest land

New Delhi, May 28 -- The Union environment ministry's Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has granted in-principle approval for the diversion of over 3,000 hectares of forest land across several states fo... Read More


halt removal of contractual govt employees in odisha: bms

New Delhi, May 28 -- The Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) has written to Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi to halt the implementation of a recent decision to remove thousands of contractual employees across g... Read More


SC urges speedy trial in Manipur violence cases

New Delhi, May 28 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the 2023 Manipur violence cases to help build confidence among the victims and their fami... Read More


ED raids Vijayan's residences in fraud case; violence erupts

Thiruvananthapuram, May 28 -- ED on Wednesday raided 10 premises, including the residences of former Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan in Kannur and Thiruvananthapuram, in connection with its probe into alle... Read More


Rival AIADMK camps reconcile,drop MLA disqualification pleas

Chennai, May 28 -- Rival factions in the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on Wednesday patched up and withdrew petitions seeking to disqualify MLAs from each other's camps, signalling... Read More